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Ability to add Feedback or Questions on Dashboard

Would be great if we had a notes area of the Dashboard for people to leave comments or questions about the content on the Dashboard. Same would be true for the PowerView Reports, except have them rollup in the Dashboard area.

We are currently planning this feature. As we scope the area, it would be great to get any additional feedback you have around how you’d like this feature to work. Keep voting this up and giving us more feedback so we can incorporate it into our design.

I have couple suggestions for the future development of dashboard commenting feature:

1) An option to "Follow dashboard" so that you would get notified if new comments appear
2) An option for the owner of Dashboard/Workspace to choose receive notifications without tagging if new comments appear
3) A possibility to tag e-mail groups in the comment

This is a good idea. if we can even leave comments on tables or Matrix. Sometimes its a good idea to write for our self when designing these report. I personally have a hard remembering what field were what after few months. so it would be nice if we can write some notes or comments

As a better addition to your existing reports you can always create a PowerApp that feeds/reads data into your Power BI reports and sits right on top of your Power BI Report, this will open up the options of functionality tremendously and in my experience has been very very useful. Also, a work around is to use the PowerBI (Preview) for SharePoint where users can comment and also like the report content.

For now I'm steering people to publish into Office 365 Groups (not just app workspaces) and take advantage of all that goodness (e.g. group OneNote, Conversations, Planner etc). Most people seem totally unaware of those Office 365 online apps.

Personally I prefer this approach e.g. OneNote Online is a "best of breed" collaborative note-taking app, and you can save links in it that take you directly to a PBI dashboard or report page.

I'd rather the PBI devs didn't burn time re-inventing the "note-taking app" wheel - there is plenty of other things they could be fixing/improving.

I think the feedback mechanism could be the same as how you are collecting ideas for improvement here. People can submit ideas and others can comment or vote on them. This is key in our organization.
I think the feedback would need to be separable for feedback for improvements, vs. questions on the substance of the existing dashboards or reports themselves. Both are important.

When there are reports/ visualizations viewed by different people, they would have more insight when they can share interpretations and observations/ questions by writing immediately as they view the report and others can see when they open the report. It can be a collaborative communication. This feature is available in some other packages especially SAP Lumira.

It would be key to be able to add comments/start conversations over specific datapoints in dashboards' widgets or reports elements. I think of this as Power BI Annotations since it would enable users to start a conversation about very specific data by placing the annotation directly over the datapoint. It would behave similarly to comments in Youtube videos, where users can decide where to place them and hide or show them. Then for each annotation features such as conversations, links, attachments and so on could be added. This functionality is key for meaningful data analysis in distributed teams.

Very important to be able to have a conversation about a report (or even better a data point) so that the collaboration can happen without everyone being online. When you have people from different time zones this is even more important. Also when the next person comes in they can see what discussions have happened. Best if it is on a snapshot (interactive report with slicers set)

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